English / ERV
Job 26
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1Then Job answered:
- 2“Bildad, what a great help you are to this tired, weary man! You have really supported me!
- 3You have given such wonderful advice to this foolish man! You have provided so much useful information![1]
- 4Who helped you say these things? Whose spirit inspired you to speak?
- 5“The ghosts and their neighbors in the underworld[2] shake with fear.
- 6But God can see clearly into that place of death. Death[3] is not hidden from God.
- 7God stretched the northern sky over empty space. He hung the earth on nothing.
- 8He fills the thick clouds with water. But he does not let its heavy weight break the clouds open.
- 9He covers the face of the full moon. He spreads his clouds over it and hides it.
- 10He drew the horizon on the ocean, like a circle where light and darkness meet.
- 11The foundations that hold up the sky shake with fear when God threatens them.
- 12With his own power God calmed the sea. With his wisdom he destroyed Rahab.
- 13His breath made the skies clear. His hand destroyed the snake that tried to get away.[4]
- 14These are only a few of the amazing things God has done. We hear only a small whisper of God’s thundering power.”